second preimage attack

English

Alternative forms

• second-preimage attack

Noun

second preimage attack (plural second preimage attacks)

1. (cryptography) An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an input that has that specific hash, it is able to find (faster than by brute force) another input with the same hash.

Coordinate terms

• collision attack, preimage attack

Translations

attack on a hash function

• Finnish: toinen alkukuva -hyökkäys